Chapter 2555: The Elf and the Time Witch

The elf holding the arrow disappeared into the air as soon as he finished speaking. Xia De, who was drifting toward the rooftop below using the Feather Fall spell, saw the two Adeles in the air appearing to be in a standoff, or perhaps a conversation. The moment he landed and was caught by Miss Dannister, he transformed into a cat.

Feeling that still wasn't safe enough, the silver cat rubbed against the sorceress's arm. Little Mia then "popped" out from the silver cat's fur and was also caught by Miss Dannister.

"Meow~"

Mia saw the silver cat immediately. She didn't struggle in the eighteen-year-old girl's arms but instead pressed herself against the silver cat, only to be pushed away by Xia De in disgust.

Just at this moment, the Adele Isabella of the present world glanced toward the rooftop. Then, the two identical ladies flew together toward the woods outside the city.

Most people in the city were still marveling at the "fireworks show" from just a moment ago, while a few were gathered around the house that had been turned into a pile of sand. Police had already rushed into Golden Music Avenue, and the church's Ringed Shushi were urgently gathering toward the city center; too many things had happened just now.

The two ladies flying toward the outskirts of the city landed together in a remote woodland ten minutes later.

Two pairs of high heels stepped on different leaves. Seeing that no one had followed them, the Thirteen-Ring Miss Isabella looked solemnly at the other her, while Adele looked up at the early autumn woods—she, too, had not seen such nature and vitality for a long time:

"Why so tense? Wasn't the matter resolved?"

She said this, looking at Miss Isabella, and then reached out to touch her face:

"So naive and young."

Miss Isabella dodged Adele's hand, and the smile on the latter's face grew even wider:

"Let me guess what you're thinking. Yes, one of us does not belong to this time."

"You don't belong to this era."

The Thirteen-Ring Time Great Witch said with certainty. The golden eyes of the demigod Adele glowed slightly; the oppression of that same-origin but more powerful force made the Time Great Witch feel pressure she hadn't felt in a long time.

"Yes, I don't belong to this era. But if I kill you, wouldn't I belong to this era then?"

Adele said softly, not caring about the other's increasingly vigilant gaze:

"Forget it. Although I envy you, I won't tease you anymore. We both know the rules of time, so I can't tell you too much about the future."

In her words, she treated herself as a "person from the future":

"Listen to the following reminders—

When you meet unreasonable people, try to accept them;

When you need to make major decisions, listen to the opinions of others in the Council, especially Miss Jia Lin Na;

When you encounter trouble you can't solve, go to Megan and Audrey for help;

When you meet the Chosen One, trust the judgment of the so-called God-Caller;

Finally, and most importantly, when you meet the person who makes both you and me's hearts flutter, don't let go."

Miss Isabella frowned:

"I never knew I liked speaking in riddles too. Have you been infected by Bella? What about the responsibilities of the Council witches? That is the most important thing for us in the final era."

Adele looked at her blankly, pursing her red lips:

"Don't worry about that."

"What?"

"Keep this secret well, and at the very end, I will come to find you again and say it to someone with you... Although that person always calculates everything, that person also has a heart. Even if there is a conspiracy, I don't believe she would calculate the person I currently value most. If she... no, I don't believe she would calculate... Adele Isabella, everyone will be saved, so don't do anything unnecessary."

"What is unnecessary?"

Adele looked at her coldly. Miss Isabella felt this was very strange, but she ultimately did not get an answer. Because that strange "self" had already disappeared into the woods, returning to the time and space that belonged to her.

Thus, half an hour later, the lady with a tear mole at the corner of her eye knocked on the door of Room 317 on the third floor of the Accordion Hotel, her mind heavy with thoughts.

Miss Charlotte Bell opened the door immediately. At this moment, Miss Dannister and Miss Winslet were already waiting for her.

This was Miss Dannister's room, so the witch in a pale yellow dress didn't ask why there were two cats on the windowsill, assuming it was just Miss Dannister finding some fun for herself because she was bored locally.

"What is the current situation with the door and the cabinet?"

She asked, her black high heels stepping on the floor inside the door. The afternoon sun shone on her face; no matter who it was, they had to admit that Adele Isabella was a tall beauty with a dignified temperament, even when frowning in thought.

Xia De had already checked the two "wormholes." Now, the "door" had used up one chance, and the "cabinet's" usage remained unchanged, still with only one left. Besides that, Xia De had also received a hint from "her": because a Paradox Worm had been killed, the duration of all "Twisted Tree Holes" had changed from twenty minutes to forty minutes.

Therefore, Miss Winslet replied:

"Everything has returned to normal."

Miss Bell crouched by the coffee table to prepare tea for the blonde witch. Adele Isabella then sat down gracefully, holding her skirt, temporarily putting aside the thoughts from her journey back:

"Leave the city's affairs to the local church to worry about. Dannister, Flora, do you recognize the elf from just now?"

After speaking, she sighed. The two people mentioned shook their heads, while the cat lying on the windowsill listened carefully, not even paying attention to Mia pressing against it again.

"Adele, so what exactly is going on?"

The red-haired girl took the initiative:

"I've been confused the whole time. After you and Flora left my room in the morning, something happened. After I finally came back, I saw two of you. Also, what was that black worm?"

In fact, everyone present, including the cat on the windowsill, had their own questions.

The Time Great Witch hesitated and shook her head:

"These questions must be answered one by one. Let me tell you about the situation outside first.

Just now I flew outside the city and then circled back. Although the white fog is about to dissipate, the local church's Ringed Shushi will probably have to work overtime tonight. The good news is that we handled it quickly enough that the church didn't suspect this hotel."

She took the teacup handed over by Miss Bell but didn't drink. The blonde hair pinned at the back of her head made her look capable and more youthful. Xia De didn't know her actual age, but her demeanor and appearance were simply that of a young woman who had just come of age, yet she possessed a dignified temperament—a temperament very different from the Adele he knew.

【But it suits your taste very well.】

Xia De ignored this sentence.

"I must admit, the situation here is trickier than I thought. Dannister, please allow me to apologize to you. It was you who was implicated by Flora and me this morning."

The red-haired girl shook her head:

"So what exactly did you do?"

"After Miss Isabella finished checking that cabinet, she wanted to try using witch secret arts to help me alleviate the effects of the curse."

Miss Winslet said. The three ladies, who at least looked very young, sat together. The red, black, and golden high heels were each placed together, and the three-colored skirts covered the three pairs of legs leaning together beside the sofa; it even looked like a tea party for noble young ladies.

The Time Great Witch added:

"I admit I misjudged the situation. The original plan was:

Try to trigger the resonance of that cabinet to make it show its effect again; at the moment we were about to travel through time, I would use secret arts to help Flora jump one second in time, making the things she experienced in that one second of time travel disappear."

She paused, leaving time for Miss Dannister to think:

"So in that one second of the jump, the cabinet did indeed take Flora to the past, but after that one second, Flora, having completed the time jump, was indeed still in the present. If this plan had succeeded, according to the principle of the uniqueness of time, the curse caused by the cabinet would have been taken away, and Flora would have remained in the present, but I didn't expect..."

She didn't avoid admitting her failure. The slightly frustrated expression on her face, paired with that tear mole, made her even more charming:

"I didn't expect that the cabinet would be directly activated, and the spread of the time instability effect would also affect you. You returned to the past again, and although I pulled Flora back in time, it caused us to be stuck in the time rift between the 'present' and the 'past'."

"Does that worm also have something to do with this?"

Miss Dannister asked, and Miss Winslet nodded:

"Miss Isabella summarized a rule of time travel."

"Yes, that worm must satisfy two conditions to be produced—a time curse and the creation of a paradox.

Although you yourselves were cursed because of time travel, you didn't create any time instability. But my method caused Flora herself to create a paradox, which is why that worm was born: Ancient Evil Object · Paradox Worm."

The red-haired girl, having understood the cause and effect, frowned slightly:

"I have only seen descriptions of this kind of thing on a very ancient stone tablet. It is said that the Paradox Worm was born on the World Tree of the ancient era and is one of the pests that gnaw on the World Tree and destroy time stability. They therefore have extremely high mystery and are also one of the few evil objects that exist in populations."

Miss Isabella nodded:

"According to the Council's records, after the World Tree collapsed with the departure of the ancient God of Time, Paradox Worms would still be born due to time instability. This is also my first time seeing that thing. You saw it too; besides time power, it can become void in the face of any attack."

"But didn't you easily suppress it?"

The Death Great Witch asked, but the lady with the tear mole at the corner of her eye shook her head:

"This Paradox Worm had just been born and hadn't been able to grow to the next stage, which is why it kept curling up in its shell.

Besides, did you really think I suppressed it easily? If another me hadn't appeared, even if I could have barely expelled it, it wouldn't have been as easy as it was now."

The silver cat on the windowsill raised a paw to flick away the tail that Little Mia was waving in front of it. The topic had finally arrived here.